William Beveridge

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (5 March 1879-16 March 1963) was a UK Liberal Party MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1944 to 1945, succeeding George Charles Grey and preceding Robert Thorp.

Biography
William Henry Beveridge was born in Rangpur, Bengal, British India on 5 March 1879, and he was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. He then held a fellowship at University College, Oxford until 1909, when his involvement with Toynbee Hall as Sub-Warden laid the foundation of a deep commitment to the social problems of unemployment, malnutrition, and old age. He was also, from 1906 to 1908, a leader-writer on social affairs with the Morning Post. In 1909, he joined the Board of Trade as Winston Churchill's personal assistant, becoming closely involved in the drawing-up of social legislation such as the establishment of labor exchanges and the National Insurance Act of 1911. From 1919 to 1937, he was director of the London School of Economics, and he was Vice-Chancellor of London University from 1926 to 1928. In 1937, he returned to Oxford as Master of University College, and he also served on numerous public committees, such as serving as chairman of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee from 1934 to 1944. He again served as a civil servant from 1940 in the Ministry of Labor, and he also served as chairman of the interdepartmental committee on social insurance and allied services. In this post, in 1942, he produced the Beveridge Report, a full-scale review of social services in Britain. He was elected as a UK Liberal Party MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1944 in order to support the report in Parliament, but he loast his seat in 1945; he entered the House of Lords in 1946. He then concentrated his prolific energy in writing on historical, social, economic, and philosophical matters, and he died in Oxford in 1963 at the age of 84.